Health Perspective: Will NMC be able to stop backdoor Entry to medical colleges?

We are all aware that NBE conducts the NEET PG exams while NTA conducts the NEET UG exams for medical students. Every year, medical aspirants put a lot of effort into their preparation for this exam and anxiously await the results in order to gain admission to a medical institution.

But in all these processes we can see there are some flaws in the medical education system. Students with low grades get good courses in private seats in prestigious colleges and while students with excellent grades have to face another year of hardship and have to re-appear in the exam.

NMC recently published draft regulations regarding this and other issues related to medical education. In the draft regulations specifying that there shall be common counselling for admission to graduate medical courses, the draft also stated that the counselling shall be based on the seat matrix provided by National Medical Commission, Provided the common counselling may have multiple rounds as necessary.

Strictly barring any student from taking admission in any other way than counselling, NMC mentioned, "No medical institute shall admit any candidate to the graduate course in contravention of these regulations. The medical institution granting admission to any student in contravention of these Regulations shall be liable to be fined Rupees 50 lakh per seat for the first time and, for the second time of non-compliance, Rupees one Crore per seat."

"For any subsequent non-compliance or continued contravention, the medical institution shall be barred from granting admission to students from the next academic year. Students shall be discharged from the medical college, and double the seats shall be reduced for one or more years," it added.

For discuss this topic in detail today’s health perspectives episode we have Dr. J A Jayalal, the former national president of the Indian Medical Association & professor of surgery at Tirunelveli Medical College who gives insights into this menace of backdoor entry to medical colleges and making sense of the newly proposed measures by the NMC.